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Thursday, March 11, 2010

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I highly recommend both of these books to anyone who loves the quirkiness and absurdity of the English language :-)

"Watching the English" had me roaring with laughter. It is a brilliantly readable and light-hearted sociological analysis of the English as a nation. Much of it also applies to us Welsh too ......

"The Victorian Church" is a scholarly tome, full of fascinating information about the rise of the High-Church movement within Britain.

If you have not read "Bootleg" , I would certainly do so. DD3 and I absolutely adored the idea of revolutionaries -children and adults alike- uniting to fight the horrors of the "Good For You" party when they start banning all chocolate and sugar.

All of the "Miss Read" series are delightful; reminescences of times gone past.

The Tony Hawks book is completely mad. Hilariously funny, but mad. Who in their right minds accepts a bet to hitchhike all round the coast of Ireland with a small fridge? They even take the fridge surfing.........

The Titanic book is a conspiracy theorists's delight, but I found the discrepanices in the official UK and USA inquiries into the disaster to be utterly fascinating reading.

Brother Cadfael - ' nuff said.

One of the sweetest, most tender books she ever wrote, and one to tug at the heart-strings........

And for all you Thursday Next fans, I managed to get a hardback copy of the infamous

"Shadow the Sheep-Dog" from a thrift shop, and I devoured every single page :-)

It wasn't a brilliantly written book, I admit, but considerably better than I had expected, considering Thursday's comments about it..........

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I love to read and I am passionate about promoting literacy. A day which passes without having read anything is a wasted day.......
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